[ic] Donation: FedEx Ship Manager tag

Grant listbox at email.com
Fri Sep 5 08:49:41 EDT 2003


> * Grant <listbox at email.com> [2003-09-04 17:48]:
> >
> > >  While working on a customer's Interchange site I developed
> some code for
> > > integrating FedEx's Ship Manager system. It's a wrapper around
> > > Business::FedEx::DirectConnect, but you can use it to query
> > > shipping prices
> > > (drop-in replacement for [fedex-query]), and obtain tracking
> numbers and
> > > printable labels.
> > >
> > >  This was done as Work-For-Hire for Jason Gold and Hi Profile
> > > Productions,
> > > Inc., but I've obtained permission from the customer to donate
> > > the code to
> > > the community under the GPL. It still needs some work,
> > > particularly to get
> > > International shipping functioning seamlessly, but we're
> pretty confident
> > > that domestic addresses with most FedEx service types will work.
> > >
> > >  FedEx has some hoops they want you to go through before they
> > > grant you access
> > > to their Ship Manager server, but there are full details in the
> > > documentation. The short story is: using Ship Manager is free,
> > > you just need
> > > a FedEx account number and some patience to go through their
> > > certification
> > > process.
> > >
> > >  The tags can be downloaded at:
> > >
> > > http://www.synesmedia.com/twiki/bin/view/Cyc/FedExShipManager
> > >
> > >  This, of course, is Use-At-Own-Risk software.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Chris Wenham
> > > Synesmedia - www.synesmedia.com
> > > Expert Interchange programming & consulting
> > > Phone: 516-620-4110 - Fax: 516-908-7824
> >
> > That's an awesome contribution.  I use FedEx and would like to switch to
> > using your tag instead of importing to QuickShip.  I'm adding
> USPS shipping,
> > and I looked through the archives for mention of a similar tag
> for USPS.  I
> > found some discussion of the possibility of integration with the USPS
> > WebTools API, but that discussion ended almost exactly 11
> months ago.  Does
> > anyone know of any such tag that might have been developed since?
>
> Yes.  Try out the Business::Shipping module:
>
> http://www.kavod.com/Business-Shipping
>
> It suppors the USPS WebTools API that you speak of (international
> and domestic),
> as well as the equivalent UPS API.  Comments welcome.

Cool, it's great to see integration with the USPS WebTools API.  Can the
Business-Shipping module obtain Delivery Confirmation numbers or printable
labels by any chance?  If not, do you remember if that would be possible
with the API?

- Grant



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